Highly Suspect Reviews: Twisters

TWISTERS MOVIE REVIEW
In this age of rapidly changing weather, as disasters begin to significantly increase, it’s par for the course for Hollywood to parallel it with action films. So let’s resurrect a film from 1996, beloved by some, make it plural, and largely have no other connection to the original. It’s Twisters and now there are…more tornadoes. Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is an ex-storm chaser (after a seriously terrible mistake that took out 90% of her friends) with a sixth sense for storm movement, much like Bill Paxton’s character in the original. Despite her understandable trauma, she is convinced to come back out to the field by her one surviving friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) who has hooked up with a well-funded group who are using military tech to get enormous amounts of new data on the tornados. But, of course, it means getting up close. Storm chasing is a hobby at this point with lots of amateur teams piling into their RVs and looking to get famous for YouTube weather videos. The king of this is Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a well-known and beloved adrenaline junky who pulls stunts like launching fireworks into the tornadoes. But he might be more than he appears, and Javi’s funders might not be as altruistic as they present themselves. So it’s more rural fast driving, goofy side characters, dangerous storms, and hand-wringing ‘but the science!’. Only now it’s got 100% more bad country music. This film may be best remembered for being the dawn of Glen Powell (to wide audiences) as the massive movie star he’s certainly going to become, but Chris, Wright, Nathan, and Ben were mixed about the rest.
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DIRECTED BY: Lee Isaac Chung
STARRING: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, David Corenswet, Tunde Adebimpe, Katy O’Brian, Paul Scheer, James Paxton
 
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Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)
Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.